Socioeconomics and Impact Manager

About the role

The Socioeconomics and Impact Manager will provide strategic leadership for socioeconomic research, impact assessment, learning, adoption studies, and evidence generation across all programs. Based in Abuja with frequent travel to project sites, the role ensures investments translate into measurable outcomes for smallholder farmers and rural communities.

Key responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of socioeconomic research, impact measurement and learning agenda.
• Provide strategic guidance on project design, theories of change, results frameworks and impact pathways.
• Design and oversee baseline, midline, and endline studies, household and livelihood surveys, adoption and diffusion studies, market and value‑chain assessments, gender and social inclusion studies.
• Ensure methodological rigor in research design, data collection, analysis and reporting.
• Develop and manage organizational impact measurement systems and lead impact evaluations across agriculture, livelihoods, climate resilience and enterprise development programmes.
• Establish learning frameworks, produce impact reports, learning briefs and knowledge products for internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead studies on farmer adoption of technologies, identify barriers and drivers, conduct commercialization assessments and develop scaling strategies.
• Conduct cost‑benefit and return‑on‑investment analyses to inform decision‑making.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading socioeconomic research and impact assessment programmes.
• Strong background in designing and managing baseline, midline and endline surveys and other quantitative and qualitative studies.
• Experience providing technical oversight to MEAL functions and guiding evidence‑based decision‑making.
• Ability to work collaboratively with project teams, donors and policy stakeholders.

Required skills